Law Enforcement Officials Endorse Vice President Harrisand Governor Walz
We endorse Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz as the only candidates wetrust to keep our communities safe.
We trust Vice President Harris and Governor Walz to support law enforcement’s work to keep
communities safe because they have been doing it their entire careers. Throughout her career,Vice President Harris has worked side by side with law enforcement to protect the public andhold offenders accountable. As a courtroom prosecutor, she took on cases of child sexual assault.
As a District Attorney, she increased conviction rates for serious and violent offenses to thehighest levels in 15 years and developed an innovative program to keep low-level, nonviolent
offenders from committing crimes in the future. As Attorney General of California, she took ontransnational criminal organizations. She also sued the big banks for mismanaging the state’spension fund–and won, returning hundreds of millions of dollars to California’s law enforcement
officers and other public workers. And in Minnesota, Governor Walz invested heavily in lawenforcement, including $300 million to meet the public safety needs of local communities
through officer hiring, equipment, training programs, community engagement, and officer
wellness.
Vice President Harris has brought the same commitment to law enforcement and public safety to
the White House. Through the American Rescue Plan, she and President Biden led the largest
federal investment ever in public safety and crime reduction–$15 billion dollars to hire and retain
more officers and keep our communities safe. That landmark investment enabled over 1,000 cityand county governments to avoid cuts to police budgets and hire more officers—like Detroit
adding another 200 officers to the beat and purchasing 50 new police vehicles; Toledo averting
layoffs and hiring more officers; Houston paying for police overtime; and Milwaukee covering
pay and public safety needs.
Their investment in our departments and colleagues is working: they have presided over thelargest drop in murders over a one-year period in American history. And, as the leader of thefirst-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, Vice President Harris has built on her
career-long commitment to preventing gun violence. After helping to pass the most significant
gun safety law in nearly 30 years, Vice President Harris has helped close the gun show loopholeand prevent domestic abusers from buying guns—keeping more dangerous guns off our streets.
While Vice President Harris has partnered with law enforcement her whole career to keep
communities safe, Donald Trump has shown he will undermine our departments and make ourcountry more dangerous. He proposed cuts to law enforcement funding and in his own words

“did nothing” to take on gun violence. While he was in office, the murder rate spiked more thanany other time in history over a one-year period. While overdose deaths from synthetic opioids
tripled while Trump was in office, he tried to gut the Office of National Drug Control Policy, andthen he opposed bipartisan border legislation that would have provided more resources to combat
fentanyl trafficking.
Trump has repeatedly shown he does not respect law enforcement or the rule of law. After hissupporters injured police officers on January 6th, he promised to pardon them. When he wasconvicted of 34 felony counts, he attacked the system instead of taking responsibility. He has
called for defunding federal law enforcement. He said he would terminate the Constitution,
weaponize the Department of Justice, and rule as a “dictator.” He creates disorder that puts law
enforcement and all Americans at risk.
This November, Americans will choose between someone who spent her career enforcing ourlaws and someone who has been convicted of breaking them. Vice President Harris will standalongside law enforcement officers to keep America safe, while Donald Trump will sow chaos,defund critical law enforcement agencies, and put all Americans at risk. The choice is clear: tokeep our country safe, we must elect Vice President Harris and Governor Tim Walz.
SIGNED:
Arnie Amoros, Lieutenant, New York and Florida
Art Acevedo, Retired Chief of Police, California Highway Patrol, Austin, Houston, Miami andAurora, CO Police Departments
Robert Ascenio, Former Police Captain, Miami-Dade County, FL
Beth Arthur, Retired Sheriff, Arlington, VA
LeRonne Armstrong, Retired Chief of Police, Oakland, California
Lynne Awe, Retired NYPD Deputy Inspector, New York, NYBill Barry, Lieutenant, Hillsborough County Sheriff/Auburn NH Police
Clarence Birkhead, Sheriff, Durham, NCCurtis Brame, Sheriff, Henderson, NCJanet Byrnes, Police Officer II, Virginia Beach, VAJohn Bell, Retired Deputy Chief of Police, Virginia Beach, VA
Michael Buglione, Sheriff, Pitkin County, COTodd Brackett, Sheriff, Lincoln County, Maine
Vaughn Bond, Retired Chief of Police, New Castle, DE
Clarence Cox, III, Former Chief of Police/ Past National President of NOBLE, Georgia
Gene Claps, Sheriff, Adams County, COJerry Canon, Chief of Police, Kalkaska County, Michigan
John Cortes, Retired Correction Officer, New York, NYKevin Cookson, Chief Deputy, Augusta, MESam Cogen, City Sheriff, Baltimore, MD
Sean Casey, Sheriff, Alexandria, VA
Jane Castor, Mayor and Former Police Chief, Tampa, FL
Tom Casady, Chief of Police, Stonecrest, GA
Ed Davis, Former Police Commissioner, Boston, MAHarry Dunn, Former United States Capitol Police Officer, Washington, DC
Leontyne “Tina” Daniel, Colonel, McDonough, Georgia
Mark Dion, Mayor, Former Sheriff, Former Deputy Chief of Portland Police, Portland, ME
Michael Diekhoff, Police Chief, Bloomington, IN
Susan Deschambault, Former Biddeford Police Commissioner, Biddeford, ME
Todd Duncan, Law Enforcement Specialist, Lincoln and Lancaster County, NE
Kevin Eppenger, Probation Officer, Las Vegas, NVDonald Ferguson, Major, Fulton County/City of Lithonia, Georgia Police
Juan Figueroa, Sheriff, Ulster County, NY
Alfred Garner, Sr., Retired Police Investigator, Atlanta, GA
Aquilino Gonell, Former United States Capitol Police sergeant, Washington, DC
Brian Gardner, Sheriff, Cedar Rapids, IAGreg Golden, Special Agent/Special Agent in Charge NCIS, Virginia Beach, VA

Janeith Glenn-Davis, Deputy Chief, CA
Jose Garcia, Retired Nassau Police Officer, Yonkers, NYCarlotta Harrell, Retired Henry County Lieutenant, McDonough, GeorgiaBrenda Leffler Harteau, Lt. Colonel, Colorado
Michael Haley, Sheriff- Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, Reno, Nevada
Dontario Hardy, Law Enforcement Office at the Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office, Kinston, NCGina V. Hawkins, Retired Chief of Police, now Assistant Chief Deputy, Fayetteville, NC andCobb County, GA
John Idleburg, Sheriff, Waukegan, Illinois
David Israel, Sheriff Kalkaska County, Kalkaska County, MIByron Jenkins, Retired Sergeant, Prince William County, VA
Billy Jones, Sheriff, Marion, AL
Brian Jordan, Retired Chief of Police, Washington, DCCurtis Johnson, Boulder County Sheriff, Boulder County, COEdmund Jasewicz, Retired Sr. Investigator, Fulton County, NYErsie Joyner, Retired Captain of Police, Oakland, CA
Howard Jordan, Retired Police Chief, Oakland, CAChristopher Kent, Retired Police Officer, Tucson, AZ
Gil Kerlikowske, Retired Chief, Seattle, WAFrank La Porta, Retired Virginia Beach Police Department, Captain, Virginia Beach, VA
Dana Lawhorne, Retired Sheriff, Arlington, VACarl Locke, Retired Detective, NYPD, New York, NYJohn Leavitt, Captain, Tucson, AZ
Arnie Moorin, Former Special Agent in Charge, DEA, Seattle, WABobby Mathieson, Retired United States Marshal, Virginia Beach, VA

Daniele Monroe-Moreno, Retired Officer, North Las Vegas, NV & Phoenix, AZ
David Mahoney, Sheriff, Retired Dane Co. Sheriff's Office, Madison, WI
Garry McFadden, Sheriff, Charlotte, NC
James McDonald, FBI Special Agent, Seattle, WA and San Francisco, CATim Marks, Retired Maine State Trooper, Maine
Miriam Nieves, Retired Police Officer, Smyrna, DELeshuan Oliver, Captain, Knoxville and Nashville, TNErin Pilnyak, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, New York, NYGrace Peek-Harris, Master Sergeant, Orlando, FLJavier Pagan, Police Officer, Boston, MAJim Pugel, Retired Seattle Police Chief, Seattle, WAMark Pettway, Sheriff, Jefferson County, ALMoses Perdue, Police Chief, Atlanta, GA
Richard Perkins, Chief, Henderson, NVJose Quiroz, Arlington County Sheriff, Arlington, VACharles Ramsey, Retired Police Chief/Commissioner, Washington, DC and Philadelphia, PAKenton Rainey, Retired Chief of Police, San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Department, SanFrancisco, CAMichael Rendon, Special Agent/ Special AUSA, Cleveland, OHRichard Rene, Former Police Officer, Groton, MA & Provincetown, MATrebor Randle, Special Agent, Georgia
Tyrone Ruffin, Sheriff, Bertie County NC
Vivian Rodriguez, NYPD 1st Grade Detective, New York, NYWill Reichardt, Sheriff, Skagit County, WADarrel Stephens, Retired Chief of Police, Charlotte, NCElmer Setting, Former Colonel, New Castle County, DE
Frederick Shavies, Deputy Chief, Oakland, CAGeorge Silverwood, Retired Captain, Madison, WI
Jacqueline Seabrooks, Retired Police Chief, Santa Monica, CAJavier Salazar, Bexar County Sheriff, San Antonio, TX
Keith Sydnor, Federal Pretrial Services Officer, Washington, DCKim Stewart, Sheriff, Las Cruces, Dona Ana County, NMSarah Saldana, former Director of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement
Sean Smoot, Commissioner of Police Leland Grove IL Chairman Illinois Law Enforcement
Training & Standards Board, Springfield, IL
Tracy Suitt, Sheriff Deputy, Pima County, AZ
Arnold Threets, Chief of Inspectors, Contra Costa County, CADr. Gregory Tony, Sheriff of Broward County, FL, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Annette Williams, Retired Chief of Police, Stonecrest, GACharles Wend, Chief Corrections Deputy, Skagit Co. Sheriff’s Office, WAEnnis Wright, Sheriff, Fayetteville, NC
Tony Yarbrough, Virginia Beach Police Department, Captain retired, Virginia Beach, VA